Miami Marlins (47-42, third in the NL East) vs. Athletics (41-47, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n
West Sacramento, California; Saturday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Marlins: Sandy Alcantara (9-4, 4.20 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 84 strikeouts); Athletics: Aaron Civale (5-5, 5.05 ERA, 1.58 WHIP, 48 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Marlins -125, Athletics +103; over\/under is 11 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Miami Marlins take on the Athletics after Kyle Stowers had four hits on Friday in a 12-5 win over the Athletics.<\/p>\n
The Athletics are 41-47 overall and 19-26 at home. Athletics hitters have a collective .327 on-base percentage, the seventh-best percentage in the majors.<\/p>\n
Miami has gone 19-25 on the road and 47-42 overall. The Marlins have a 21-35 record in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s game is the second time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nick Kurtz leads the Athletics with a .282 batting average, and has 15 doubles, a triple, 20 home runs, 76 walks and 66 RBIs. Alika Williams is 9 for 31 with a home run and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Liam Hicks is fifth on the Marlins with 21 extra base hits (seven doubles, a triple and 13 home runs). Owen Caissie is 9 for 27 with a double, three home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 3-7, .240 batting average, 5.64 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n
Marlins: 7-3, .292 batting average, 4.14 ERA, outscored opponents by 19 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Athletics: Shea Langeliers: day-to-day (thumb), Brent Rooker: 10-Day IL (knee), Jacob Wilson: 10-Day IL (thumb), Tyler Soderstrom: 10-Day IL (hip), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Zack Gelof: 10-Day IL (hand), Luis Severino: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Denzel Clarke: 60-Day IL (foot), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n
Marlins: Josh Ekness: 60-Day IL (calf), Janson Junk: 15-Day IL (shin), Anthony Bender: 15-Day IL (shin), Andrew Nardi: 60-Day IL (ribs), Robby Snelling: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronny Henriquez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Marlins (47-42, third in the NL East) vs. Athletics (41-47, fourth in the AL West) West Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[44661,368826,368827,368824,368825,5654,64,63,4034,22909,205411,15922,9286,22905,359632,368828,7207,238255,161138,1188,591,6784,22899,54244,317976,198638,39618,51613,85,20541,139550],"class_list":["post-778379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-civale","tag-adam-mazur","tag-alika-williams","tag-andrew-nardi","tag-anthony-bender","tag-athletics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-brent-rooker","tag-brooks-kriske","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-illinois","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-janson-junk","tag-josh-ekness","tag-kyle-stowers","tag-liam-hicks","tag-luis-severino","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-owen-caissie","tag-robby-snelling","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-sandy-alcantara","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-sports","tag-tyler-soderstrom","tag-zack-gelof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}